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Hi, Finally I can post my video tutorial, it explains how to migrate a DC and a FS from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2. I hope you can find this video helpful and if you have comments / suggestions, answer to this topic!

Recently I had a VMware ESXi (4.1 and 5.0 are the same) environment and creating three VM server (Windows 2008 R2 Standard). I found a interesting thing is whenever I manually changed the ESXi host time a big value let's say 5mins or 10mins. And roughly within one hour later, all three VMs have been changed the time, like "The system time has changed to ?2011?-?12?-?29T07:27:38.500000000Z from ?2011?-?12?-?29T07:22:41.502723100Z." EventID is 1, and user is "system". I checked everything with the w32time service inside the windows registry and disable all NTP, even disable w32time service. This one seems to happen again and again. Then I enable the logging with w32t…

What if somebody who was impatient and didn't know that reformatting partitions during windows setup took FOREVER, turned off their laptop during this process and now when it starts it can't even get to windows setup or read the boot cd and just says "error loading operating system." What have I done? Is this laptop now a paper weight? Thanks for the help... Continue reading...

Is there a way to make IE8 look like IE6, like this here? Pic. http://home.comcast.net/~nekohibiki/browser_01.png Continue reading...

So I am new to this forum, new to Microsoft Server products and today I setup my first Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Standard. I followed a toturial on how to setup Active Directory and DNS. Then I setup DHCP, which all work properly. Also for school, I had to make a bulk import, and with help from a youtube tutorial I made it to work and have now a Active Directory filled with users in there devision maps. What I wanted to do now was giving each user a homefolder, profile map etc. So I began to read on the internet, searching and watching tutorials, but I just don't understand the difference between folder redirection / profile maps / homefolders what they do etc..…

I'll try not to rant. This used to be easy. Now it's not. I went to Server Manager. I added the File Services Role. I installed the Windows Server 2003 File Serices and the Indexing Service. I rebooted. The Indexing Service is running. I checked "Always search file names and contents" in the search options. Searches for a folder containing files with the searched-for text fail. Some similar threads talk about enabling disks for indexing. I don't know how to do that. There's a whole lot of stuff out there about adding folders to libraries and somehow enabling indexing on them but (say what?) - hey - there's got to be an easy way to do this. No? I know I ca…

Folks, Any one recommend a good online (cloud) back up service that will allow their service to be network mapped? This way the back up can just save there instead of a second local drive. Thank you. Ed

hi, I want to give my PC a remote desktop connection to only five users. but i don't know how can i? anyone will guide me please???

If a user is using their remote login to log onto the server and when they do they receive an error message when they log in but cant remeber what the message says, where can I find what the message was? Somewhere in one of the logs? Any help is appreciated.

Hi Guys! We are using Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 Servers. Out Application is deployed here. Due to Tightly Integration of our application Developers need to Access live application placed on Windows Server. We have only one Username 'Our Limitation' but 100s of developers connecting through the same Username. I have Two goals: Whenever a user gets connect with the Server for Debugging or fixing some live Issue(s) , System Logs File he/she changed/Deleted/created along their paths Machine Name of that User from which he gets connect to that particular server on which Code is hosted. PS: It would be Plus point if it all emailed. Serve…

i have server 2008 not R2 installed 32bit processor. i have windows 7 and xp on other hosts not on a domain nor is the server a domain server. the issue is when i connect from a windows 7 or xp pc to a shared drive on the server the connection gets disconnected either the open shared drive folder drops the connection and also my remote app that i connect to server 2008 with drops as well. not sure what the issue would be.

If this is in the wrong section i'm sorry, this is my first visit. Hi all, I have recently been trying out the "shutdown -i" command via cmd. The problem is that one of the computers connected to the domain will not shutdown. I am attempting to do this from the DC and am using the built-in administrator account so i am in the domain admin group. it's weird as I can get the shutdown -i to work on all computers but one. Cheers for all your help..

Okay I am about to shred my MCP on 2003 server. Or maybe there is something I am missing here. No laughing please. Question: I just installed a 2008 R2 server. Added it to our domain. I am trying to set up shares on the network and my test user can read but not write to folder area, unless they are domain admin. I gave him full access via NTFS and Share permissions and get an error "You do not have permission to save in this directory. See the administrator to obtain permission". Our users connect via Citrix, and I mapped a drive manually in DOS. Still, no cigar.

Hiya, I have a problem adding instalation software to a group policy. I have created one, I've got a user whom I want to install firefox when he logs on on his account. I've added him to Administrators group and the folder with the package is in the network and is shared to everyone and when I search for the package in the Edit console of a group policy and add the package I get an error message "Operation failed, unable to find information about software emplacement. Run software check to make sure the software is correct" (sorry, my English is not proficient). What do I do?

Can a 2008 R2 RDSH be effectively locked down using the existing server 2003 TS lockdown domain policy? Its the only 2008 server in a 2003 AD. Thanks for any and all help

hi there, good afternoon friends. i want to ask whether there is software for auditing my files on windows server 2008? i want to know who create, access, edit and delete some files on my server. i already try windows auditing but it seems so difficult to read the log. is there more simple? is anyone of you know more better software? thanks

Hello everyone Could anyone please help me understand the difference between Hyper-V and SCVMM? I am the systems engineer of a small college and being mainly a Linux environment, windows user profiles are becoming a problem. For that reason we are planning to get a Windows Server that will run 4 virtual machines. VM1= for Windows Server 2008 VM2= for an SQL Server VM3= for Sharepoint VM4= maybe a print server In order to manage these VMs I was looking at Microsoft's Hyper-V and SCVMM but I find it difficult to understand the difference. :unsure: Could you please advise on what would be best for my case? Many thanks

how to use the (software installation package) with setup.exe for a group policy to deploy a software while it needs .msi installer file.... i tried exe2msi converter but never worked for me.... appreciate any help